[PATCH weston] man: update weston's shells

Bryce Harrington bryce at osg.samsung.com
Fri Mar 20 14:01:48 PDT 2015


On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 07:23:31AM -0700, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
> LGTM
Reviewed-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce at osg.samsung.com>

Thanks, applied:
   4bdcb57..41d2ccc  master -> master


> On Mar 20, 2015 6:59 AM, "Pekka Paalanen" <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>
> >
> > Tablet shell is long gone. Might as well list what we have now.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>
> > ---
> >  man/weston.man | 27 +++++++++++++++++----------
> >  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/man/weston.man b/man/weston.man
> > index 735235f..d8d924e 100644
> > --- a/man/weston.man
> > +++ b/man/weston.man
> > @@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ Wayland shell, desktop, or applications.
> >  .
> >  .\" ***************************************************************
> >  .SH SHELLS
> > +Each of these shells have its own public protocol interface for clients.
> > +This means that a client must be specifically written for a shell
> > protocol,
> > +otherwise it will not work.
> >  .TP
> >  Desktop shell
> >  Desktop shell is like a modern X desktop environment, concentrating
> > @@ -57,16 +60,20 @@ and the special client
> >  .B weston-desktop-shell
> >  which provides the wallpaper, panel, and screen locking dialog.
> >  .TP
> > -Tablet shell
> > -Tablet shell is a graphical user interface aimed for tablet-like
> > -devices, where usually the only input method is a touch screen.
> > -It does not support freely floating windows or many other desktop
> > -features, but intends to provide a natural interface on tablets.
> > -Tablet shell consists of the shell plugin
> > -.I tablet-shell.so
> > -and the special client
> > -.B weston-tablet-shell
> > -which provides the basic user interface.
> > +Fullscreen shell
> > +Fullscreen shell is intended for a client that needs to take over
> > +whole outputs, often all outputs. This is primarily intended for
> > +running another compositor on Weston. The other compositor does not
> > +need to handle any platform-specifics like DRM/KMS or evdev/libinput.
> > +The shell consists only of the shell plugin
> > +.IR fullscreen-shell.so .
> > +.TP
> > +IVI-shell
> > +In-vehicle infotainment shell is a special purpose shell that exposes
> > +a GENIVI Layer Manager compatible API to controller modules, and a very
> > +simple shell protocol towards clients. IVI-shell starts with loading
> > +.IR ivi-shell.so ,
> > +and then a controller module which may launch helper clients.
> >  .
> >  .\" ***************************************************************
> >  .SH XWAYLAND
> > --
> > 2.0.5
> >
> >

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